thegoodanarchist: <Jadoubious: "Samuel Reshevsky should've been world chess champion" He had his chance in 1948 and several times afterward. It was Reuben Fine who was truly ripped off by chess politics (and the unrelated disaster of WWII)>

Tojo and Hitler were notorious for their hatred of Reuben Fine. Some secret documentation of their Axis collusion suggests that they started the war to prevent Fine from becoming world chess champion.

A.T PhoneHome: For some reason I think that Reshevsky played on and kept defending out of spite; losing in 42 moves looks better than losing Queen and resigning in 12 moves, if only the difference is purely numerical.

But I still think that there is something to admire in such an effort by Reshevsky. Also the face value of 15-year-old springing a Queen winning trap on multi-time U.S Champion; a fitting example of Fischer's studying habits!

perfidious: <A.T> Then there is the flip side: Nunn vs Kiril Georgiev, 1988, while making it through the first time check, was published as ending round about move ten in some magazines, according to Nunn.

perfidious: Do not recall exactly what Nunn wrote: the one thing which surfaces in my tired old brain since the previous post is that he wryly noted that if Georgiev's motive was to make the game less publishable by playing on, he was not wholly successful, as some publications gave it as ending at move ten!

A.T PhoneHome: Of course he would say that. :P I wonder what or who made some publications have it end at move ten.

Speaking of moves omitted, to mention the opposite, aren't the last few moves of Anderssen-Kieseritzky game also added into the game? I think those moves demonstrate the finishing mate, however, they weren't played in the actual game.

zanzibar: Several have mentioned this before, but maybe without the reference to the <Bastrikov--Shamkovich(1958)> game:

<'When Reshevsky played 8...Na5 the whispers in the tournament room at the Marshall Chess Club grew to a barely suppressed uproar. The move [from Bastrikov,Georgy - Shamkovich, Leonid, Sochi, 1958] had been analyzed just a few weeks earlier in Shakmatny Byulletin and many of the stronger players in the club were thoroughly familiar with it.'>

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